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David Souter Quotes

American - Judge | September 17, 1939 -

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.

Power Government Authority Govern

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

Time New York City Feet Sand Tide

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

Equality Security Liberty Want Order

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

Good Freedom Law Constitution Equal

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

Future I Am Democracy American About

While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993.

Knowledge Violence Values Congress

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

Good Simple Good Things Language

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

People Independence Understanding How

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

Time Past Optimism Me World Look

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

People Start Think Thinking Better

The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.

Day Camera You Body Dead See

The Court's majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio's payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools' religious missions.

Money Support Tax Bar Tuition Ohio

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